What's Your Quotation Quotient? June 23

See how many of the following quotes you can identify. See answers below.

1. "Now it is summer, and, as usual, life fills me with transport and I forget to work. This year I have struggled for a long time, but the beauty of the world has conquered me."

A. Leo Laporte

B. Leo Carrillo

C. Leo Tolstoy

2. "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

A. Mario Andretti

B. Will Rogers

C. Jon Bon Jovi

3. "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."

A. Ursula K. Le Guin

B. Henry Ford

C. Carnac the Magnificent

4. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

A. Harry Reid

B. Mark Twain

C. Michelle Jackson

5. "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."

A. Confucius

B. Edna St. Vincent Millay

C. Thomas Jefferson

6. "Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

A. Friedrich Nietzsche

B. John Boehner

C. Leon Panetta

7. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

A. Nancy Grace

B. Danny Tanner

C. Socrates

8. "No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."

A. Bill Cosby

B. Rodney Dangerfield

C. Hassan Rowhani

9. "When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot."

A. Tommy Lasorda

B. Willie Mays

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. "I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy, nor more wise — than he was 6,000 years ago."

A. Cliff Clavin

B. Alex Trebek

C. Edgar Allan Poe

1-C 2-B 3-A 4-B 5-B

6-A 7-C 8-A 9-A 10-C

10 — QQQQ = Quote-Master

8-9 — QQQ = Scholar

6-7 — QQ = Literate

4-5 — Q = Semi-Literate

0-3 — No Q = Quote-Dunce

Bonus Quote of the Day:

"When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget." — Sen. Henry F. Ashurst

(Ashurst, 1874-1962, was one of the first two Senators from Arizona.)

Answer a "QQ" question from Arlen and win a prize, every Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. on KRXA Radio 540AM. Arlen collects quotes in Del Rey Oaks and posts them at quotationquotient.com.